Related: 10 Kitchen Cleaning Hacks That Save Time (and Actually Work) Before You Begin. Consider your ceiling’s material and texture before you dive into this cleaning procedure. If you have ...

It doesn’t take long for a kitchen ceiling, as well as the walls, to get coated with an ultrafine aerosol of cooking grease. You can feel this under the vent hood over your stove. It’s a ...

Q: My home has "popcorn" ceilings, the kind with asbestos. The cost of asbestos removal is so high, I've decided to overlay the ceilings with drywall. The person I've hired to do the work ...

Drywall was designed as an alternative to traditional plastering methods involving mortar mixes. It is fixed to walls and ...

Gypsum board is often called drywall, wallboard, or plasterboard and differs from products such as plywood, hardboard, and fiberboard, because of its noncombustible core.

Sat., Sept. 11, 2021 This is a fairly standard kitchen ceiling. It’s smooth with a flat paint. The flat paint is a newer one that is washable without causing burnishing of the paint.

Q: We had a kitchen addition put on our home about 10 years ago. Decisions were made that now have us slapping our foreheads. My wife wanted a smooth ceiling with no texture whatsoever, which is ...

Q As a longtime income property manager, I thought I had seen it all — until a drywall ceiling in a tenant's living room suddenly gave way and fell to the floor. It wasn't just a piece here and ...

The Gypsum Association has released GA-227-13, “Recommendations for the Prevention of Ceiling Cracking.” The publication outlines methodologies for mitigating cracking in large span gypsum board ...

Kitchen ceilings can be degreased with solutions made of dish soap, vinegar, baking soda, and commercial degreasers. If you have popcorn or textured ceilings, avoid using vinegar and be cautious ...